another became the first female editor
while the men were at war in the early
1940s. Weeks ago, the Tar Heel covered a
week-long women's festival which
aspired to dispel the myth of the Southern
woman, the ruffled inncocent in lace.
Hugh Stevens, editor of the Tar Heel in
1964, now a lawyer in Raleigh, wrote a
complete history of the DTH, reading
every issue until 1968. He said, "The paper
has been traditionally a lively and well
written publication. It has had a greater
impact than you might expect. It has not
always been consistent; it varies. But it
mirrors the changes on campus and
society. If you want to really know what
has happened on campus through the
years, the newspaper tells the story.
"One thing I especially enjoyed was
reading things by people who later became
famous whether in journalism or not. I
found the editorship of Thomas Wolfe
fascinating. He wrote nearly the entire
newspaper, and often he wrote about
namby-pamby things internal campus
matters. He didn't trumpet a cause. But in
the writing, you could see the stirrings of a
great writer. Of course, hindsight is great.
The one I remember especially was about
the conduct of students at the Virginia
Carolina football game. Viriginia was our
big rival, then."
The headlines before that big game,
which took place on Thanksgiving Day,
read, "First Virginia-Carolina Game Ever
HereSpecial Trains to Be Run from Most
of the Large Cities of the State." On the
editorial page ran this admonition: "And
who shall deny that the fine old courtesy of
those Old Dominion folks was extended
not alone to their own husky warriors but
also to their Tar Heel visitors? ... Weneed
no reminder of our duty on this occasion.
The gentlemen of Virginia must carry
away from Chapel Hill the memory of a
vist that will be thoroughly delightful,
whether the team wins or loses. They are
our guests."
Carolina was the winner. And the
editorial page carried this poetic
reminder: "But do eleven men make a
football team? ... It takes the whole squad,
gentle brethren. Please, remember it.
When the paeans of victory are all sung,
when the N.C.'s have all been awarded to
our husky and deserving crew, when the
last bright bonfire has been brightly burnt
in honor of these, our worthy heroes, do
not forget the valorious knights whose
deeds remain unsung the rest of the
squad, known in the phraseology of the
laundry as the 'scrubs.'"
During the '30s, the newspaper, like the
campus, still had a small-town flavor. An
infirmary list with people's names and
ailments was published on the front page,
along with reminders about attending
chapel (only three cuts allowed), the
Presbyterian Church Bible class social,
and reports of the Y meeting.
The Jan. 7, 1930 issue reported an
"unusually large number of students who,
together with the normal registration of
first-year men returning for the second
quarter, are expected to swell the
freshman class total to around 800." The
article continued with tidbits about the
freshman class including this one about
"the smallest man at the University ...
Billy Arthur of Charlotte, who is known
as 'One Yard of Fun,' because of the fact
that he is only three feet tall ... Last year he
spent in vaudeville work."
The Tar Heel announced the declaration
of the first World War on April 21, 1917,
and the second in 1941. The front page on
Dec. 9, 1941, the first DTH published after
the bombing of Pearl Harbor, carried an
editorial that read: "Some of the more
serious-minded ftudents had realized what
was coming, but the average Joe College
was shocked. He was still living in a world
where a date, a set of dances, a football
game, were most important. He was
looking forward to Junior-Senior and
what a swell band they could get this year
because they were going to spend $3,000
that weekend. College life was a Country
Club."
The writer offered specific suggestions
of what each person could do to prepare
for way, but he was against the draft for
college students, and the memory of the
"Great Fizzle of 1918," his term for the
meeting in Vienna, was clear. We had not
lost the war, we lost the peace. He wanted
Thursday, February 23, 1978 Anniversary Supplement 5
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peace a better one.
Hugh Stevens said of the newspapers
printed in thiscra, "In the popular mindit's
thought that it was an automatic reflex to
come to the assistance of our country. But
before Pearl Harbor, the student
viewpoint was pretty much isolationist.
Then after the bombing, there was a 180
degree turn."
During the war, there were scrap-iron
drives and war-bond drives, and the
predominance of women and the youth of
men became particularly noticeable. The
campus was literally overtaken by
military forces because it was a preflight
training center. On April 9, 1943, the
newspaper reported, "Steele was left last
night as the only civilian men's dormitory
when Guy B. Phillips, secretary of the
War College announced that Navy V-12
students will be housed in Old East, Old
West, BVP and Whitehead, beginning
July 1."
A banner headline on Aug. 15, 1945,
proclaimed "World At Peace." But as
another war gathered force in Southeast
Asia in 1962, another student wrote, "red,
white, and blue coffins still contain
bodies."
After the war, the appearance, as well
as content, began to look and read more
like the Tar Heel today. Rather than
stacking articles down one column and
then back to the top of the next, lay-outs
were blocked in different shapes.
Headlines and leads were more succinct.
Chit-chat and Bible meetings gradually
disappeared from the front page.
One of the biggest crises the Tar Heel
encountered concerning editorial freedom
happened in the academic year 1955-56.
The controversy stirred around the
amateur status of ACC athletics. The co
editors, Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar,
attacked the premise that college sports
should emphasize entertainment and
suggested instead the "college sports
should be for training students and giving
them recreation and providing the campus
with a pillar for school spirit."
When coach George Barclay was
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dismissed, after a losing season, to be
replaced by Maryland coach, Jim Tatum,
whose motto was "winning isn't the
important thing, it's the only thing," the
rift widened between the Tar Heel editors
and those who supported big-time college
football. An editorial which ended, "we
would sooner see intercollegiate sports
stopped than the University made over
into an athletic Cuckoo-land," caused
; students to circulate a petition calling for
the recall of the two editors.
Yoder and Kraar were re-elected to
their posts, and in spite of them, college
football continued to get bigger. Kraar
and Yoder pointed out the significance of
their editorial campaign in a November
editorial: "The Dn7y Tar Heel and its
editors, unlike the boys in the Upper
Room, do not know what 'student
opinion' is ... The newspaper will always
act in what it feels to be the interest of the
students and the University. But the
eidtors' interpretation of those interests
will be theirs and will never, as long as the
newspaper has integrity and freedom,
derive from anyone's idea of 'student
opinion.'"
Hugh Stevens said, 'Most vivid in my
memory, is the Saturday, Nov. 23 issue
covering the Kennedy assassination. The
president was dead, and we made a
decision that we didn't have much to offer.
We threw out the whole front page.
printed a full-page portrait of Kennedy
with the years of his birth and death. It
captured the feeling of the time.
"The only one who felt compelled to
write anything was Curry Kirkpatrick. It
was a back-page article and later won a
national prize. I think it was the one best
piece ever wcktco ue. the. Tar Heel,
although I'm biased. He's now a senior
editor for Sports Illustrated, and even then he
wanted to write sports, but that article
brought attention to him and helped
propel his career."
Kirkpatrick wrote: "Because the man
was so alive, it is difficult to believe he is
now dead. It is not only difficult, it is
impossible."